Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine
Subtitle: a Victorian photographer abroad
By: Douglas R. Nickel.
Contributors: Frith, Francis.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Frith, Francis; Travel photography -- Egypt; Travel photography -- Palestine; Egypt -- History -- Pictorial works; Palestine -- History -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: "In 1856 the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith Systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites."

"Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine narrates the political, intellectual, and social concerns that make Frith representative of England's encounter with the East in the nineteenth century. Historian of photography Douglas R. Nickel brings a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to bear on the subject in order to expose the complexity of Frith's image-making, setting the photographs against a Victorian backdrop of religious debate, imperialist thought. Romantic philosophy, and Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: A Victorian photographer abroad; title: The automatic machinery of circumstance; title: Spirit facts: biography as history; title: Egypt, the greatest sensation; title: Photographed and described; title: A fulcrum for my lever; title: Religion as science, science as philosophy; title: A Christian positivist; title: The view from above; title: Self-portrait in Eastern costume; title: A sermon in stones.